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Peter Bradshaw

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Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir (2026) 2/5 EDIT “All these issues, all the allyship and advocacy, look like yet more brand accessories.” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 43% 3/5 EDIT “Rabbit Trap is impressively controlled and composed, although there is something a little heartsinking in which the clear contours of storytelling finally soften into the indistinct fuzz of mood and vibe. ” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Strongroom (1962) 5/5 EDIT “The movie delivers a couple of big shocks, with the biggest saved for just before the closing credits, and everything is briskly wrapped up inside 80 minutes. ” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Silence and Cry (1967) 4/5 EDIT “An impenetrable psychological trauma with weird erotic overtones, like an absurdist bad dream transcribed by Kafka.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 90% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a time-honoured and perfectly enjoyable setup, and the first act, when the new reality dawns on clueless Bradley, is watchable. But the plot twists are derivative and the action then becomes dependent on weird stabs of grisliness.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a story which is capably, straightforwardly told by film-makers Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa, and well acted by its leads Éanna Hardwicke as Keane and Steve Coogan as McCarthy.” – Guardian Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 3/5 EDIT “It’s ingenious and watchable stuff, with cheeky twists, although the final escalation to full-on action mayhem is maybe a step too far towards pure absurdity. ” – Guardian Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2024) 81% 2/5 EDIT “This is an exhausting indie romp on the subject of time travel, and sometimes plays like a funnier version of Shane Carruth’s time-travel classic Primer -- well, slightly funnier.” – Guardian Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Bulk (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “The film is massively self-indulgent, often funny, rescued from its not infrequent longueurs by its stars, those very likable performers Alexandra Maria Lara and Sam Riley, who are a real-life married couple.” – Guardian Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 1/5 EDIT “There is something fundamentally wrong-headed about this smug, saccharine film.” – Guardian Jan 14, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/5 EDIT “This is an exciting, forthright, energised -- though very gruesome -- film in which there is real human jeopardy and conflict. Non-zombies are more cinematic.” – Guardian Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Escape (2025) 4/5 EDIT “An intensely, sometimes even passionately acted piece of work, imagining the inner life of a man who was once Japan’s most wanted fugitive.” – Guardian Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Labyrinth (1986) 78% 4/5 EDIT “This is a very analogue-era movie with analogue-type storytelling and dialogue... The action often ambles and dawdles and the dialogue, written by Terry Jones, has a casually constructed but often very funny humour. ” – Guardian Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 5/5 EDIT “This film succeeds, not because it solves the mystery, but because it deepens it still further. It is contrived and speculative, but ingenious and impassioned at the same time.” – Guardian Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “I actually had my eyes closed and mouth open at certain key points, and was grabbing the seat in front of me with both fists. It also may yet prove that, yes, Hugh Jackman really is the greatest showman.” – Guardian Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Silly it may be, but Feig and his cast deliver it with terrific gusto; this is an innocent holiday treat.” – Guardian Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2/5 EDIT “Avatar is as gigantically uninteresting and colossally impervious to criticism as ever: a vast, blank edifice that placidly repels objection.” – Guardian Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% 2/5 EDIT “There are one or two nice lines and sharp moments but they are submerged in a treacly soup of sentimentality; in the end, I couldn’t get past the cartoony quasi-Richard Curtis characterisation and the weird not-quite-earthlingness of the people involved.” – Guardian Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “This is a story in which happy endings are not guaranteed and in fact not forthcoming. It has a seriousness, an unsentimental readiness to look reality in the face.” – Guardian Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller... tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network.” – Guardian Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Hersh emerges as a tough, combative, peppery personality from this movie. We only get a taste of the volcanic temper he can deploy when he needs to tongue-lash some cringing editor into giving him the resources he needs. It’s how you have to be.” – Guardian Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Magazine Dreams (2023) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Magazine Dreams itself, though flawed by a cumbersome flashback structure in which he is talking to a counsellor, has powerful moments and Majors is very good.” – Guardian Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Folktales (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “They have to swim in icy water; and they make it look like fun. What doesn’t look like fun is the camping out.” – Guardian Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “It is rather that the film is itself ping pong; the rhythm and spirit of table tennis is in every scene and the mesmeric effect of the spectacular, clattering, dizzying back-and-forth.” – Guardian Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Rian Johnson’s delectable new Knives Out film is a chocolate box: mouthwateringly delicious on the first layer and … well, perfectly tasty on the second. ” – Guardian Nov 26, 2025 Full Review
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